Posts by Simmix1
Vinabær Hafnarfjarðar og tengist Hansa verslun sem fór fram í Hafnarfirði fyrr á öldum
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"
yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
Also fascinating that Indiana redistricting did not happen in part because a powerful Republican state senator was fed up with Trump using the r-word.
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition
He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.
This administration is more risky for women than Harvey Weinstein’s sauna.
Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional!
AND there's a fundamental right to abortion!
We won!
(Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)
Frábærar fréttir. Verður dásamlegt að fylgjast með
*Well! Jailbroken Criminal Grok seems like a really handy chatbot to know
medium.com/@JimTheAIWhi...
*Dead media studies, often enlightening in unusual, politicized ways
*Well, EU mandarins, you've only had since Earth Day 1970 to figure all this out, so now you better hurry, hurry, hurry
"Hungarians decided that a major source of their problems was Orbán himself," @AdamSerwer writes. "Maybe someday Americans will come to a similar realization about Orbán’s great admirer, Donald Trump":
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
Amazingly, you are able to travel light if you buy local. Leave more money where you travel and pack light.
We blame DJT for this turn of events...
I really think Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is an extremely underrated perfect film.
It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.
“Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now ***
WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.” 4/16/26 www.wired.com/story/where-...
Hver standa á bak við Sagnaland?
*Maybe they can also keep it secret when those expensive data centers get blown-up by plausibly-deniable Russian saboteurs
*The secret-sabotage thing has all kinds of jargon names now, like "cotton," "fallen cigarette," "aerial debris`' etc
kind of dying that the quote toby took from our long interview was "We were right, that helps," which is possibly the most samantha quote possible
anyways
it's good reporting--about the emergence of resistance liberalism *outside* of elite liberalism, which has more or less imploded
Oligarkí er græðgisstjórn þar sem fámennur hópur nýtir vald sitt til að raka að sér áhrifum og auði. Ísland er í hópi glæsilegra þjóða...
Here’s the ad promoting the new Peter Thiel backed startup, Objection, where AI will allegedly determine the veracity of journalists’ claims. It looks like they took the ad down, but I screen grabbed it when I could still access it from a QT by right wing Christian investor Nate Fischer. 1/